Comparisons are made between a smooth bump and one where the lee side is covered with replicas of shark denticles – dermal scales that consist of a slender base (the neck) and a wide top (the crown).

both before and after sharks in this region were hunted. Erin Dillon explains how dermal denticles reveal how reef communities have changed, providing context for reef conservation. Disclaimer ...

sharks, rays, skates, and chimaeras are cartilaginous fish, meaning their skeletons are made of cartilage, not bone. Their skin is covered with denticles, tooth-like scales that differ from the ...

All those denticles point backward ... Those grooved channels disrupt the flow, forcing the water past and away from the shark's body, significantly reducing drag and even pulling sharks forward.

Hatchling shark denticle CT scan video. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Nov. 7th, 2018, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by R.L. Cooper at University ...

Denticles found on a shark’s nose might be flat and round, resembling the patched surface of a soccer ball. But elsewhere on the body the denticles might look like overlapping cupped hands with ...

Killer whales are known as apex predators in the regions they inhabit in each of the Earth's oceans, typically preying on ...

Old lineage cartilaginous fish like sharks, skates and rays that have skin which contained small spiky scales or "dermal denticles" may be the key, scientists say. Cambridge University said their ...

The whale shark has dermal denticles not only on its body but on its eyes. Like those on the body, they are there for ...

One thing that ship hulls and medical tubing cannot yet do is to grow dermal denticles the way shark skin can. The shark is refreshing its skin surface continuously. It’s likely that a ...

They have a triangular profile from the front. Like all sharks, their skin is covered in dermal denticles — flat, V-shaped ...

Do sharks have silky, smooth skin? Myth! Sharkskin actually feels like sandpaper, because it's made up of tiny, leaflike structures known as dermal denticles, and it's thought this makes them more ...